E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I am a huge fan of a democratic workplace – one where everyone can contribute and be heard. Yet I am leery of promoting democracy for the sake of democracy. Democracy is not the goal. Good governance is. A democracy run amok through ignorance or exploitation is just as deplorable as tyranny. Democracy is no different from a [...]

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E-M8 looks at 8 aspects of managing a business, but the way each of those aspects appears in businesses is a function of the phases in business life-cycle. There are 5 major phases that have been identified, by Greiner and many others, including independently, myself (I arrived at the phases by looking at rules of [...]

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I love the fact that I work for a company where my wife can join me at work if she feels like it. A place where people care and support my projects that don’t even directly relate to the company business. It is a great feeling to work at a place that allows me the [...]

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Sometimes, scratch that, most of the time we, all of us, but especially specialists, technical people,  find a challenging problem and stick with it until they solve it. Solve it in a way that gets us excited. Solve it in a way that is better than anything we have seen. And than we hit a [...]

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The key buzz phrase that seem to be repeated like a mantra: “we need to break down all silos.”  Fortunately, with no apparent results. Here is the thing, silos serve a purpose. We should not break them down until we understand that purpose and provide for a better, more effective approach of accomplishing that purpose. [...]

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